Michael E O Hanlon: 11 books
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and...
Healing the Wounded Giant
Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense...
by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?
In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the...
The Opportunity
Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington...
The Science of War
Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand...
The Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
America needs better options for resolving potential crises
In recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country?...
The $650 Billion Bargain
The Case for Modest Growth in America's Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
U.S. defense spending isn’t excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it’s both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world.
The United States spends a lot of money on defense-$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael...
Bending History
Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
By the time of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, he had already developed an ambitious foreign policy vision. By his own account, he sought to bend the arc of history toward greater justice, freedom, and peace; within a year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,...
Beyond NATO
A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O’Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough....
A War Like No Other
The Truth About China's Challenge to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore."
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A Glass Half Full?
Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic...